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Moral Highlander

Palahniuk writes pretty well, but he's so obviously filled with hatred and subsconscious self-loathing that I guessed he is an homo just out of reading his books, lol. And he is, of course.

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Yeah, I'm reading one his newer novels. The main character/narrator is a teenage chick who is writing/tweeting from hell.. I'm not sure how much more i can take, or if i'll be able to finish reading this...

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Girlvinyl

Probably his second best book after The Bros. K. It's also incredibly fucking eerie how he dead on he was about the horrors the progress of the communist revolution would bring about-- i.e "Shigalovism".

I am re-read

Because it has been years. Not in German tho, because I am a pleb

I just posted the German title because I like it better, and it seems like an intentional allusion to western society as a whole.

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The Prime Memeister

Probably his second best book after The Bros. K. It's also incredibly fucking eerie how he dead on he was about the horrors the progress of the communist revolution would bring about-- i.e "Shigalovism".

I am re-read

Because it has been years. Not in German tho, because I am a pleb

I just posted the German title because I like it better, and it seems like an intentional allusion to western society as a whole.

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Haven't read brothers K. yet. But yeah, this is his best book I've read so far.

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Dramacrat

It's about the myth of progress. Even though history has been a series of absurdities, cruelties and horrors, most people keep the delusion that the future can be better than the past. In this sense, secular humanists are no better than the believers they denounce.
In actuality, we're a bloodthirsty plague species who are on the brink of population decline, and the only choice we have is which fiction to believe today.

It's nothing too surprising for the average ediot, but Gray expresses it beautifully.

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Aristocratic

This is a very important book. In the case of this being the point of culmination in our civilization's cycle before the fall to the fire of transformation and renewal in the start of a new beginning, this book shows what humanity was going to and about to achieve in the year 2100 A.D.

"Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100" (Michio Kaku)

"Michio Kaku (Physics of the Impossible), a professor of physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, gathers ideas from more than 300 experts, (Nobel laureates) scientists, and researchers at the cutting edge of their fields, to offer a glimpse of what the next 100 years may bring. The predictions all conform to certain ground rules (e.g., "Prototypes of all technologies mentioned... already exist"), and some seem obvious (computer chips will continue to get faster and smaller). Others seem less far-fetched than they might have a decade ago: for instance, space tourism will be popular, especially once a permanent base is established on the moon. Other predictions may come true—downloading the Internet right into a pair of contact lenses—but whether they're desirable is another matter. Some of the predictions are familiar but still startling: robots will develop emotions by mid-century, and we will start merging mind and body with them. Despite the familiarity of many of the predictions to readers of popular science and science fiction, Kaku's book should capture the imagination of everyday readers."

Although Facebook is announcing that today is "Back To The Future Day," I meant to post this two days ago.

It's worth the download.

It would be interesting to base a fantasy story of the future based on all of our predictions and what we were meant to achieve, including the villainy and tyranny of the day and its own dark future it wanted to achieve, frozen into a myth of a new Atlantis that once nearly was. And how something that was kept in the dark from us finally caught up to us even after the defeat of the corporatocracy, by the unleashing of good will throughout the collective consciousness and breaking its own; Perhaps by the characters having journeyed to Mars and seeing the recordings of what eroded Mars in its pyramids, then learning of the trajectory, and of this object still being in the outer darkness about to enter the solar system due for Earth, leading to the end of the story and the count down to what ended the cycle and started the new one immediately amid the culmination of the plot.

I think slavery is only mentioned once in this book as a metaphor for something else.
In any case, it's good to remember context and that slavery in those times is very different than slavery as we view it today. Although slaves taken in war were common, slavery in itself was not race based and was so commonplace it was virtually a form of currency. If you owed someone money and couldn't pay you could offer to be his slave for a few years to settle the debt.

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Girlvinyl

It's a book full of crime photos taken between the 1910's and the 1940's with commentary from the officer that collected the photos. I've been reading through it since I first got it, I can't get enough of it.

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EDF Elite

Just finished: Misery by Stephen King (re-read), American Psycho by Brent Easton Ellis.

Working through: Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson. Not a bad biography, basically reaffirms that he was a perfectionist control freak asshole, but instead of being an edf2 user he used his skills to save the world from have to use two mouse buttons. I almost at the part where he dies. Oops, spoiler alert.

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The Prime Memeister

and it's garbage
the tagline should be "22 year old /b/tards give you retardedly obvious instructions on how to be a conformist"
It's poorly written, repetitive (one section is literally just a massive copy/paste from earlier in the book) and everything in it is either as shallow as self help books can get or simply bad advice. the book seriously explains things like brushing your teeth and gives you fitness and fashion advice from people who clearly know nothing about either. the book can be summed up in: "get a job, wear what everyone is wearing, do what everyone else is doing, stay in shape, get laid, eat food and try desperately to fit in so that maybe you'll be happy". not that it's bad advice for most people to not ruin their live by being a perpetual living parody of rebellion against society, but to read it spelled out by 3, self important faggots who feel superior enough because they know how to shower as to write a book telling others about it is vomit inducing. this is a text document of literal garbage.